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- Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word 17 hours ago:
Working in Remote Desktop for an extended amount of time is no fun. It’s possible, but you need the right version of windows and office to do that.
I wouldn’t want to rely on complex solutions like that for an essential for work. Now you have to administrate your local computer and the remote server.
Run a windows VM directly on your Linux machine. No need to make it more complicated. At least then you don’t depend on a working internet connection.
Alternatively try to run MS Word using WINE on Linux.
If you don’t want to buy a license use these scripts.
You really seem to need MS Office. It’s not necessary to make your life harder by building complex solutions. Run windows if it makes your life easier.
Other alternative: buy an Apple device and run MS Office for Mac. That’s the only reliable way to use it without windows.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 20 hours ago:
Statcounter is running on more than a million websites. They track user metadata across these websites.
While this doesn’t give you absolute numbers for everything, it should be enough to notice trends.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 20 hours ago:
It’s good enough for shovelware alredy.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 3 days ago:
The short and bloodless battle could have been sold better. In a TNG episode someone (Worf) would have mentioned some ancient Klingon marital ritual of ritual combat. Even better when it’s a story from Klingon mythology. Then they could call a P‘Qouth and duke it out for a symbolic minute.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 3 days ago:
Sensible post, besides the glorification of the Ottoman Empire. The brutality and corruption of the Ottomans are the reason the Middle East and to a lesser extent the Balkans are such a shitshow.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 3 days ago:
Ritual combat is a thing.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso" 3 days ago:
Ritual combat is something Klingons have a lot of cultural understanding and respect for. This fits right in.
- Comment on There is a strong chance that dissidents are being corralled (i.e. manipulated and socially engineered) into their own genocide at this very moment. 3 days ago:
Incoherent dreams are not showerthoughts.
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- Comment on If you call your community with their url, it tells you what you're about to "see" -- c/NWSL becomes see NWSL 5 days ago:
!showerthoughts
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
What Palestinian rights by international law do you mean? UNSC resolution 242 doesn’t grant the so called „right of return“ to all descendants of Palestinians for example.
There were numerous rejections of peace deals by Palestinians and Arabs. Peel commission, UN Portion Plan of 1948, Khartoum resolution, Camp David, Taba, and others.
Yes, Arafat accepted Oslo. It was his big comeback from exile in Tunis snd irrelevance.
The Oslo accords were the only time something positive was achieved for Palestinians. Yes, they were limited, but also only meant to provide a transition for a few years.
The reasons Arafat and later Abbas didn’t agree to one of the deals offered over the years were fear of losing power and waiting for a better offer down the line. The better offer came, but internal Palestinian political opposition (Hamas) grew stronger.
The outcome was an ever worsening condition for Palestinians in many ways. Being uncompromising has cost them dearly.
Israel should end the occupation of the West Bank and settlements. However they have legitimate security interests. Israel needs a neighbor that agrees to peace and non aggression. Leaving unilaterally hasn’t worked in Gaza. At the moment Israelis don‘t see a chance for this. October 7th has diminished the small peace camp further.
Palestinian political leadership has been deeply divided for decades now. There’s no good vision, only eternal violent struggle and uncompromising demands. You have to understand that for many Palestinians „the occupation“ means all of Israel, not just West Bank and Gaza. This is a fight they have been losing for 100 years and will continue to do so. Coexistence is the only way forward.
More Palestinians have died in Gaza, than all deaths combined (including Israel‘s) over the last 100 years before. Gaza had an operational international airport with construction of a harbor underway, was ruled by Palestinians, no IDF presence in the late 1990s. Arafat decided to throw all that away when he launched the second intifada. Just because he wasn’t able to compromise and sell that to his people.
The comparison to Ukraine and Zelenskyy is weak because the situation is so different. Ukraine hasn’t lost the war yet, but is holding on. For how many years that’s worth doing is a good question.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
Arab leaders were promising massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Jews from Palestine in the wake of the war. “Throw them back int the sea.”
Jews in nascent Israel at that time was mostly refugees from Europe, but also Yemen for example. They didn’t have any other place to go to. Nobody wanted them. For them it was fight for their lives or be killed.
Remember that Jews were ethnically cleansed from the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. Jerusalem had been majority Jewish for decades and some of the oldest Jewish quarters were in the Eastern part.
After the war was won by Israel. 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries and mostly went to Israel. Adding more Jews to the land with no other place to go to.
It’s a pretty shit situation overall and was from the beginning.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
Israel does plenty of bad things including to Palestinians.
However the political reality and history of the region is more complex than “Israel evil”.
Of course the Arab public blames the USA and Israel for everything bad. You can also look up what conspiracy theories are popular in the Arab world and you will see how much validity public opinion has. Blaming Israel and the USA (and the west) for every failure has been a goto for political and religious leaders for more than a hundred years. It’s the whole basis of Muslim brother type Islamism for example.
Let’s look at some facts though. Islamists and secular dictators in the region have killed far more people than Israel.
Let’s look at a different poll by PCPSR on Palestinians.
When asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying acts or atrocities committed by Hamas members against Israeli civilians, such as killing women and children in their homes. The overwhelming majority (86%) said it did not commit such atrocities, and only 10% said it did.
- Comment on Spliit – Open-source, self-hostable alternative to Splitwise 1 week ago:
a non free alternative I can recommend is Tricount. It’s best feature is that is also works offline.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
You are forgetting 1948, 67, 73 when lots of Arab countries waged large scale war against Israel. There was even a huge oil embargo in the 1970s by Arabs against the West.
Of course having a good relationship to the US is important to many countries. It’s very beneficial to them. However those governments opposed to the US aren’t particularly great for their population either.
There’s certainly no lack of bad regimes in the Middle East.
Regarding Prince Bandar and Saudi policies in the region. Saddam’s Iraq became an enemy with his invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had been a regional rival to the Saudis even back to the time it had a Hashemite king. The Hashemite and Saudi clans are old rivals for power in the region. Saudis have their own interests in the region. Iran is a regional rival for example and their Islamist ideology a direct threat to the kingdom. Yes, Saudis have played some stupid games with spreading Wahhabism and supporting Islamists militias against other governments in the region. Of course the Saudis prioritize their own interests above the Palestinian cause. They have been a big supporter historically both financially and politically.
I really recommend you watch the interview to hear another perspective and his personal interactions with Arafat during the peace process.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
The question was why there’s not more support by Arabs and I gave an answer based in historical fact. I even provided a link to an interview with a very respected Arab leader making similar remarks.
Palestinians deserve a dignified life in prosperity and a future. Their political leadership and allies have failed the Palestinian people repeatedly.
Palestinians are mostly used as political pawns and symbols by their supporters abroad. Improving the actual lives of Palestinians is an afterthought. Fighting Israel takes precedent over fighting for Palestinians.
Palestinians are oppressed by Israel, the Palestinian authority police state, Hamas’ brutal Islamist regime, kept as eternal refugees by Arab host countries their grandparents were born in. UNRWA‘s mission and definition of refugee is markedly different from the UNHCR, keeping Palestinians stateless and without rights. Millions of people fled in the 1940s around the world. They found new homes, settled elsewhere, built lives, and their grandchildren live a good life. Palestinians are the only refugees this future was denied.
Western pro Palestine activists repeat the falsehoods and incitement of Hamas. Even there the voices of moderate Palestinians are shouted down and marginalized. Palestinians don’t have free speech under the PA nor Hamas. Their supporters in the west call for more violence (intifada) and war (destroy Israel). That path of failure has caused immense suffering for Palestinians.
Palestinians are in a terrible situation and have the worst supporters. It’s heartbreaking, really. They deserve better.
- Comment on News could use a reboot. 1 week ago:
Social Media is the reboot.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
As the Zionist Rudy Rochman repeats all the time, Palestinians and Jews are cousins.
Even back in the day, the situation and views were more diverse than you think.
But judging from Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s new book, “Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter,” religion has long been central to the conflict, and apocalyptic narratives about a new holy war may be over-hasty. To be sure, the neighbors in question lived roughly a century ago, and the way Zionist and Arab intellectuals understood each other in late-Ottoman Palestine can only indirectly color how we understand current events. Further, Gribetz, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton, places careful chronological limits on his argument that early Zionists and Arabs saw each other “not as perfect strangers, competing for territory,” but as religious and racial cousins with “intertwined histories, cultures, beliefs, even blood.”
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
The Arab states have tried many times for decades to fight Israel directly and indirectly without success.
Jordan and Lebanon received huge problems with Palestinian militants inside their borders (Black September, Lebanese Civil War). Palestinians in Kuwait supported the invasion by Saddam Hussein. So after spilling a lot of their own blood and receiving turmoil at home, they chose it’s not a worthwhile or winnable fight.
Prince Bandar gives his perspective on his frustrations with Arafat in this interview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=idJx1bB30EM The Saudis spent a lot of money and political capital to get to peace talks, only for Arafat to refuse the deals offered.
Many Arab rulers like Egypt are internally threatened by Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood, which Hamas is an offshoot from. Hamas, Hezbollah, and their allies are seen as threats to their own power.
Supporting the Palestinian cause has become a losing proposition. Even more evident now that Al Assad in Syria lost power and the Iranian regime got a bloody nose.
Lose wars against Israel and threaten your own power domestically is just a bad proposition.
Palestine isn’t even the worst place to be in the Middle East. Syria over the last decade plus and Yemen, Sudan are drowning in war, death, famine, genocide happening. Palestinians have an above average living standard, education, and life expectancy for the region.
Squashing an uppity group brutally with force is just another Tuesday for the Middle East.
The biggest crime in this war, that nobody talks about, has been Egypt keeping the border closed to refugees. No other warzone doesn’t let refugees leave. This has contributed immensely to suffering and death inside Gaza. Egypt does this because it doesn’t want Hamas inside its borders. There are already terrorist groups active in the Sinai. The Muslim Brotherhood is the enemy of the current government. Hamas is both of these.
The question is also how much did the Palestinians fuck up to make their Arab neighbor Egypt their enemy.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 1 week ago:
Only white Jewish people? The majority of Israeli Jews are from the MENA region. Palestinians are also quite diverse skin color wise. Palestinians and Jews are very close genetically as well. They look the same.
- Comment on Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza's deadliest days since ceasefire 1 week ago:
Egypt prevents refugees from leaving Gaza. This doesn’t happen in any other war zone.
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 2 weeks ago:
I‘ve gotten a library card last year and that a fantastic decision.
- Comment on New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE 2 weeks ago:
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 3 weeks ago:
The US can grab Greenland, Mexico, and Canada. Militarily, it’s straightforward. The US is so extremely superior, nobody will be able to stop them.
The US is self sufficient in oil. It doesn’t even need Venezuelan oil.
This situation isn’t comparable to Nazi Germany at all. Germany is in Central Europe and has major land powers in France and Russia plus the UK to contend with. The USA sit safe and sound, protected by vast oceans on both sides.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
2019. Venezuela already had a decade of severe decline before that. Things got bad way before sanctions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela
Economic conditions continued to deteriorate in 2016 when consumer prices rose 800% and the gross domestic product contracted by 18.6%,[[39]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela#cite_note-39) causing hunger to escalate to the point that the “Venezuela’s Living Conditions Survey” (ENCOVI) found nearly 75 percent of the population had lost an average of at least 19 pounds in 2016 due to a lack of proper nutrition.[[40]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela#cite_note-40) Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States(OAS) stated, “I have never seen a country going down so fast, at every level: politically, economically, socially”.
On 1 May 2017 following a month of protests that resulted in at least 29 dead, Maduro called for a Constituent Assembly that would draft a new constitution that would replace the 1999 Venezuela Constitution.[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela#cite_note-USAmay-42) He invoked Article 347, and stated that his call for a new constitution was necessary to counter the actions of the opposition. The members of the Constituent Assembly were not to be elected in open elections, but selected from social organizations loyal to Maduro.[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela#cite_note-USAmay-42) It would also allow him to stay in power during the interregnum and skip the 2018 presidential elections, as the process would take at least two years
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 4 weeks ago:
The biggest far right group in Germany are the Turkish grey wolves.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 4 weeks ago:
What sanctions do you mean, specifically? The US had barely any sanctions against Venezuela. Most sanctions were against members of the regime, not the country. The US remained the biggest customer for Venezuelan oil long after Chavez gained power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis
Early sanctions came in response to repression during the 2014 and the 2017 Venezuelan protests, and activities both during the 2017 Constituent Assembly election and the 2018 presidential election. Sanctions were placed on current and former government officials, including members of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice(TSJ) and the 2017 Constituent National Assembly (ANC), members of the military and security forces, and private individuals accused of being involved in human rights abuses, degradation in the rule of law, repression of democracy, and corruption. Canada and the E.U. began applying sanctions in 2017.
Chavez took power in 1999. More than a decade before these sanctions started.
The utter mismanagement by the Chavistas in power are the main reason Venezuela has been doing badly for years leading to a fucked economy, rising crime, lacking healthcare and food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chávez
The high oil profits coinciding with the start of Chavez’s presidency[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-FPpoverty-18)resulted in temporary improvements in areas such as poverty, literacy, income equality and quality of life between primarily 2003 and 2007,[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-UN-19)[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-FPpoverty-18)[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-IACHRRequests-20) though extensive changes in structural inequalities did not occur.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-NACLAcrimeREV-21) On 2 June 2010, Chávez declared an “economic war” on Venezuela’s upper classes due to shortages, arguably beginning the crisis in Venezuela.[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-ECONwarCHAVEZ-22) By Chávez’s death in 2013, economic actions performed by his government during the preceding decade, such as deficit spending[[20]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-ELPAISfeb2015-23)[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-FPmarch2013-24)[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-FPdontblame-25) and price controls,[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-ECONfood-26)[[24]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-ENfood-27) proved to be unsustainable, with Venezuela’s economy faltering. At the same time, poverty,[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-FPpoverty-18)[[25]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-28) inflation[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez#cite_note-29) and shortages increased.
- Comment on Just couples things 4 weeks ago:
Give that poor lady a straw.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 weeks ago:
Differential diagnosis for mental health issues is never easy. One mental health issue can easily cause others. The major difference is that gender and being trans can become a big part of one’s identity. You don’t get that to that extent with other disorders.
Especially the overlap with autism is interesting and not obviouS. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/crossing-boundaries-unraveling-the-link-between-gender-dysphoria-and-autism/DB33E9208EF32A46C4AE83D9B673F498
Preliminary findings indicate that individuals with ASD may experience higher rates of gender dysphoria compared to the general population. Factors such as social communication difficulties, rigid thinking patterns, and heightened sensitivity to social norms appear to influence the experience of gender identity. Qualitative data reveal that many individuals navigate significant challenges in accessing appropriate support and validation, often feeling marginalized within both the autistic and gender-diverse communities.
Seek out interviews with detransitioners and people who used to work in gender affirming care, if you want to learn about Trans issues from someone besides activists.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 weeks ago:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/AHMT.S135432
Evidence from the 10 available
prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence
(reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma28) indicates
that for \~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC,
the GD recedes with puberty
Puberty blockers are a strong change in your life and a severe intrusion into the natural development of a body. Instead of going through puberty like most other kids, the child will be behind in their physical development by years. That can lead to social and psychological problems of course.
There’s generally not much quality research into the long term effects, as you can read repeatedly in [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker#Research].